I had erased my HDD on my new Mac MD318

Hi all,
I just bought a Macbook Pro late 2011. In my job demand, I have to Install bootcamp for Mac OS Lion and Windows 7 64bit. But after I finished installation Windows 7 and shrink Windows HDD to 2 volumes (In this time, in Windows 7, I saw 4 Partion: MacOS, HD Recovery, Windows 7 and MyData). Then, I restart my Mac, but it's was not boot or load to any OS. I had tried using Alt/Option key, but it's not working anymore. Then I used Command + R to run Internet repair. When Mac Lion Utilities appear, I used Disk Utilities and erase all partition because I want to install everything new again.
So, I have some questions below:
Where is my HD Recovery?
How can Install or recover Mac Lion on Macbook, because my internet have slow speed to download Mac Lion via Internet?
Thanks and regards,

problem solved.Thank You.
Richard

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